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Can you point me to the guideline that says stories must be related to development please?
by orf 9y ago
Can you point me to the guideline that says stories must be related to development please?
- shiohime 9y agoIt says under what to not submit: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. Note this is obvious political banter bait - hence I'd argue it falls under the ideological / political battle point.
- orf 9y agoThanks, I still can't see the phrase "anything not related to development is off topic" though. If you could highlight where it says that I would be most grateful.
- shiohime 9y agoOn-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. This isn't related to being a good hacker, but rather it's literally an off topic article that is basically just opening up a bunch of political debate points.
- orf 9y agoThanks again, but I still cannot see it. If you could please highlight the section that explicitly states that content must be about development, as per your original comment, that would be fantastic. I'm sure it's right under my nose and I'm just missing it
- Lazare 9y agoI'm a good hacker, and I found it interesting. And it's been upvoted by other people. If you didn't find it interesting, then maybe you're not a good enough hacker? (Tongue in cheek, but only partially.)
- sctb 9y agoMaybe you're right and this story can't be discussed civilly here, but if that's the case it would be our own failure and not because the article itself was comprised of ideological or political talking points, which it isn't. Other commenters: can we try to avoid a pile-on in cases like these? There are some personal barbs here that aren't part of good community behavior.
- khedoros1 9y ago> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. There's some overlap between hackers and people interested in the history of gender politics and sociology, but I'd say that something like this is closer to an "ideological or political battle or talking point". I read and enjoyed the article, voted up the submission, etc, but I think that the argument that it's technically off-topic has merit.
- shiohime 9y agoThanks - I read the article and I'm getting downvoted to hell for pointing out the blatantly increasing amount of political articles here. But seriously, these posts are better suited to reddit than here. I'm not even arguing that this is a bad article or anything, but it's pretty much the definition of off topic imo.
- orf 9y agoPerhaps, but it's not literally off topic and the implication that articles have to be related to development in some way is false.
- khedoros1 9y agoWhen I say "technically off-topic", I do mean "literally off-topic". I think that based on a reasonable reading of the topic guidelines, the post is off-topic. Specifically, I think it plays easily into an ideological talking point. > the implication that articles have to be related to development in some way is false. I agree. I wasn't trying to imply that something needs to be development-related to be on-topic. "Good hackers" often find things besides development interesting, and I'm not arguing that point.